An ex was telling me how annoyed she is by how all of her right-wing acquaintances are regurgitating the same AM radio joke. The joke: now that Obama has won the Nobel Peace Prize, he'll next win the Heisman Trophy. We rolled our eyes at how people parrot these things. Then I wondered something.
"Do you even know what the Heisman Trophy is?" I asked.
She did. "And that's another thing. The last guy asked me the same condescending question. I was like...I hate you!"
Yikes. "And, by extension then, me. For asking you the same question."
She shook her head and waved her hand at me. "Nah, I don't hate you for that," she said, not remotely trying to be funny.